Budapest

SAR Orbit number: 46132

15 February 2004

Description: This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal
colour composite image is centred over the city capital and also largest city of
Hungry, Budapest (large bright area). It is seated along the banks of the Danube
River, visible as a large dark line flowing from North to South across the
image. The river divides the community of Buda on the west bank and the
community of Pest on the east bank. The left side of the image is part of the
low, rolling plain known as the Great Hungarian Plain, or the Great Alföld. The
magenta area between Sofia and the city of Szekesfehervar is Lake Velencei.
The colour of the lake is due to wind on the 15 June 2003 (red) and 28
September 2003 (blue). The different colours of the field indicate different
cultures.

The image is made of three ERS-2 SAR PRI (Precision Radar Image) images
acquired on different dates and assigning a colour (RGB) to each date of
acquisition.